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Egy interfész jelenség: indexikális demonstratívumok azonosító fókuszban [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2015 An interface phenomenon: indexical demonstratives in focus *** This paper presents the results of an experiment regarding the use of Hungarian indexical demonstratives where it is shown that the use of indexicals depends on the nature of the context ...
Tóth, Enikő, Csatár, Péter
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Developing Pragmatic Awareness of Requests in the EFL Classroom: A Focus on Instructional Effects [PDF]
Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2023 Explicit teaching of pragmatics to second language learners has been studied by a large number of researchers. However, the review of the related studies shows that while some researchers believe in the effectiveness of explicit instruction of pragmatics,
Sadegh Sadeghinezhad
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study investigated the understanding of underinformative sentences like “Some elephants have trunks” by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Suppression of literal meaning in single and extended metaphors
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Within Relevance Theory, it has been suggested that extended metaphors might be processed differently relative to single metaphoric uses. While single metaphors are hypothesized to be understood via the creation of an ad hoc concept, extended metaphors ...
Camilo R. Ronderos +1 more
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Believing What You're Told: Politeness and Scalar Inferences
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The experimental pragmatics literature has extensively investigated the ways in which distinct contextual factors affect the computation of scalar inferences, whose most studied example is the one that allows “Some X-ed” to mean Not all X-ed.
Diana Mazzarella +3 more
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from some to not all, is that they fall into the class of GCIs and as such, constitute a homogeneous class of highly regularized and context-independent ...
Judith Degen
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Strength is relevant: experimental evidence of strength as a marker of commitment
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 When relevance theory tried to express the underlying processes involved during interpretation, Sperber and Wilson posited a process of context elaboration in which interpretation is seen as a path of least effort leading to the selection of a set of ...
Kira Boulat, Didier Maillat
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Bias in polar questions: Evidence from English and German production experiments
Glossa, 2017 Different polar question forms (e.g., Do you / Do you not / Don’t you / Really? Do you... have a car?) are not equally appropriate in all situations.
Bettina Braun +2 more
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Pre-Stimulus Activity of Left and Right TPJ in Linguistic Predictive Processing: A MEG Study
Brain SciencesBackground. The left and right temporoparietal junctions (TPJs) are two brain areas involved in several brain networks, largely studied for their diverse roles, from attentional orientation to theory of mind and, recently, predictive processing.
Sara Lago +3 more
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2022 This paper builds on the notion of reformulation as a category which can be distinguished from other closer functions (paraphrase, conclusion, correction) (Pons Bordería, 2013, 2017).
Shima Salameh Jiménez
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